William Taft actually said...

It is hereby ordered that the following-described land, to wit, the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the west half of the nort...

I shall not stop to discuss whether it might have been possible to accomplish the same great reform by milder methods.

We have made great progress, almost within our own memory, in such ideals.

Let us leave this beautiful city of the national dead, therefore, with the deepest gratitude to the men whose valorous deeds we celebrate.